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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Asterion's Lament," what kind of a creature is "Asterion"?
(a) Half-bird and half-human.
(b) Half-fish and half-human.
(c) Half-snake and half-human.
(d) Half-bull and half-human.

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what creature does the speaker claim is walking down West 29th Street?
(a) A coyote.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A lion.
(d) A bull.

3. Which of the following is the best descriptor of the tone of "American Arithmetic"?
(a) Macabre.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Solemn.
(d) Mordant.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Hypotaxis.
(c) Pun.
(d) Asyndeton.

5. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) The window.
(b) The beloved's body.
(c) Dirty water.
(d) A searchlight.

6. In "Postcolonial Love Poem," the speaker mentions a "cabochon." What is a cabochon?
(a) A smoothed and polished stone.
(b) A small silver disk used to hold a bolo tie together.
(c) A variety of jasper.
(d) A silver buckle common in the Southwestern United States.

7. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Subway train.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) Taxi.
(d) Airplane.

8. In "Asterion's Lament," the speaker talks about "the slake of a monster's appetite" (28). What does "slake" mean in this context?
(a) Danger.
(b) Crumbling away.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Enormity.

9. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Chopsticks.
(b) Scorpions.
(c) Knitting needles.
(d) Crayfish.

10. In "Like Church," what word is repeated with a different meaning to imply that the speaker is a kind of captive in her relationship?
(a) Judge.
(b) Bars.
(c) Cage.
(d) Time.

11. In "Run'n'Gun," what is a logical interpretation of the symbolic value of the fence outside the schoolyard?
(a) It stands for adults' failed attempts to keep children safe.
(b) It stands for the barriers life puts in the way of poor Indian children.
(c) It stands for the insular world of reservation life.
(d) It stands for the "world" that education can open to underprivileged children.

12. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(b) It portrays them as underdogs.
(c) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(d) It foreshadows the poem's ending.

13. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.
(b) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(c) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(d) It uses ballad meter.

14. In "Like Church," the speaker uses the Spanish term of endearment "Mi caracol" (29). What is the literal translation of this expression?
(a) My rabbit.
(b) My cabbage.
(c) My snail.
(d) My peanut.

15. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Predict the weather.
(b) Make someone fall in love with you.
(c) Help you find your way home.
(d) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Skin-Light," the speaker refers to "violet, biliruben/ bloom." What is she describing?

2. On page 32 of "Wolf OR-7," what motifs from earlier poems in the collection recur?

3. In "Catching Copper," what does the acronym "CIB" stand for?

4. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?

5. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?

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